Policy and Resources Committee - 27 October 2014

Sara Bedford (Health)

Paula Hiscocks

Phil Brading (Public Services)

Ralph Sangster

Kemal Butt

David Sansom

Stephen Cox

Roger Seabourne (Community Safety)

Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Economic Development, Sustainability and Transport)

Martin Trevett (Housing, Planning and Strategic Schemes)

Ty Harris

Keith Williams (Leisure, Community and Wellbeing)

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1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

To receive any declarations of interest.

3.

BUSINESS RATES POOLING

To seek approval to enter into a business rates pool with Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) and a number of other districts within the County.

14 10 27 PR i - (03) Business Rates Pooling (doc)

To agree to take this item of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with special circumstances which justify its consideration as a matter of urgency.  The Chairman to rule on its admission.

14 10 27 PR i - (04) Planning and Travellers Consultation (doc)

5.

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Committee wishes to consider the remaining item in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

 “that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under Paragraph 3 of Part Iof Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

 (Note:  If other confidential business is approved, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

1.

SOUTH OXHEY  INITIATIVE

This report summarises the results from the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire stage of the procurement process for the South Oxhey Initiative and confirms the five short listed bidders to be invited to take part in the next stage of the procurement process, being Stage 1 of the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue.